Samuel Caldwell to Benjamin Franklin and the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council (unpublished)
Gentlemen

As the Act to Establish a board of Wardens for the Port of Philadelphia, and for other purposes therein mentioned, is already passed into a Law, and a new appointment of Officers must soon take place under it, Permit me to request that your Excellency and the Honorable Council, will be pleased to reappoint me to the Office of Collector of the Dutys of Tonnage, which by your good favor I have held above six months past, and also, to that of being one of the Wardens of the Post as formerly.

Should these appointments be continued to me, I promise that the same Assiduity and care in the discharge of the Dutys of the departments, shall be enployed that have hitherto been exerted by me, and which I hope may Justify the Choice in favor of Gentlemen Your Most Obedient and very Humble Servant

Saml. Caldwell.

To His Excellency Benjamin Franklin Esqr., and the Honorable Members of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Endorsed: 1788 October 7th Petition of Samuel Caldwell Reade in Council October 7th 1788 and granted so far as respects the Tonnage Office
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